A long time ago, way before kids, I was invited to a chef’s kitchen experience. It was a chance to spend an evening with friends and wine in the kitchen of a classically trained baker in…Athens, Ohio? We were going to make pizzas! Athens in 1998 was filled with dreads, plaid, cargo short and new age […]
Teenagers Will Eat Anything
Secret Guilty Mom Confessions
Hello, my name is Abbie. I have a secret guilty mom confession. I have a secret cabinet in my kitchen that my kids don’t know that opens. Actually, there are two cabinets that look like panels. In one I keep Scotch tape and scissors and the other everything I need to make S’mores. Today […]
Fake Football Fan Here, It Is All About The Food For Me
My name is Abbie. I can’t tell you a thing about football but I know I have my boys as a captive audience for food and treats in our little nest for a few hours every Saturday in the fall. What is wrong with me that by 9:00am today, a monday, I was making a […]
Confession, I am a Hoarder
I spent all day yesterday on a ladder and with a bucket cleaning our front porch. Not until I was done did I feel genuinely bad my neighbors had to look at our mildewed white porch all fall. I do this a couple of times a year but it has been a really rainy year […]